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CHECK-ROW ATTACHMENT FOR CORN-PLANTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 362,309, dated May 3,1887.

Application filed January 24, 1887, Serial 110.522.1330. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- 7

Be it known that I, PETER FRANKLIN PANA- BAKER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Wayne, in the county of Wayne and State ofNebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Row Attachments for Corn-Planters; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear,

' .and exact description of the invention, which Fig. 6 is a perspectivedetail view of the sup 1 porting-bearing for one end of theoperatingshaft. Fig. 7 is a similar View of the casting secured to themiddle of the forward shaft or bar. Fig. 8 is a similar view of one ofthe uprights having the shaft-supporting catches. Fig. 9 is a front Viewof the machine, and Figs. 10, 11, 12, and 13 are detail views.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in all thefigures.

My invention has relation to that class of check-row corn-planters inwhich the operating-shaft is provided with radiating spokes or legs atits ends, which legs or spokes travel upon the ground with their ends,revolving the shaft, and at the same time marking the hills planted; andit consists in the improved construction and combination of parts ofsuch a planter, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letters A A indicate two uprightbrackets secured upon the cross-piece A, connecting the forward ends ofthe runners BB', the rear ends of which supportthe seed-tubes O 0, uponthe upper ends of which the rear cross-piece, D,

is secured, having the seed-boxes E E secured upon its ends and havingthe dropping-slide F upon it, the arms G G, which connect the planter tothe sulky-frame, being attached with their forward ends to the said rearcross- C, are provided with bearings b, and oblique.

braces F F are secured to the arms and have their forward perforatedends fitting upon the rod or shaft, the said ends being spaced apartfrom the bearings by means of sleeves c, fitting upon the rod or shaft.The rear ends of the arms are provided with horizontally-flattenedsockets 6, into which pins or bolts 2 upon the shanks of {transversebearings d for the operating-shaft may slide and turn, the said socketsand bearings forming'swivel-joints for the operating-shaft.

The forward end of the central arm, D, is provided with avertically-slotted bearing or casting, f, which may turn and slide uponthe forward shaft or rod, and the rear end of the arm is provided with acasting, formed with a bearing for the shaft and with aforwardlyprojecting box for holding the end of the arm, the sides of thesaid box, which is open at the ends and at the top, being provided withpivotal pins y y. L-shaped arms or levers G G are pivoted with theirupper arms upon these pivotal pins or lugs, and are formed with flatarms at right angles to the upper arms and with segmental slots G intheir upper ends.

ArmsJ are secured with their sleeved centers upon the operating-shaftand have their ends preferably provided with anti-friction rollers J,and the arms are secured bymeans of setscrews 12 at both sides of theboxy, and have their ends projecting at equal angles to each other, twoarms being shown in the drawings projecting at each sleeve and at rightangles to each other.

The forward end of the central connectingarm, D, has a T- shaped lever,H, pivoted upon it, and the rear end of this lever is formed with across-head, to the ends of which the ends of two rods, K K, are pivoted,having their rear bent ends sliding in the segmental slots G in theupper ends of the L-shaped arms G.

A casting, M, is secured with two bearings at its upper end, havingset-screws s s to the middle of the forward shaft or rod, and the lowerportion of the casting is formed with a socket, 1), while the forwardface of the casting is provided with a pivotal pin or lug, t, and thetwo bearings and their set-screws confine the vertically-slotted castingat the forward end of the central connecting-arm.

A lever, L, is pivoted upon the pivotal pin or lug t, and has theforward end of the T- shaped lever inserted into a longitudinal slot inits upper end, and the lower end of the lever is inserted into atransverse eye at the forward end of a lever, N, pivoted to rock in ahorizontal plane upon a stud projecting from a frame-piece, O, securedwith its forward end in the socket 'v in the casting M, and secured withits rear end to the rear cross-piece of the planter-frame by means ofangle-irons P. The rear end of the lever N is pivotally connected to thedropping-slide and operates the dropping mechanism, which may be of anydesired construction.

Two hubs or castings, i i, are secured with their central sleeves, XV,upon the ends of the operating-shaft, the hubs or sleeves having groovesfor the reception of feathers w, securing them to the ends of the shaft.The cast ings are formed with two intersecting boxes formed byrectangular flanges at the corners of the casting, and the legs orspokes I are secured between these flanges, being preferably halved inor cut away at their middles and secured together with the saidhalved-in portions crossing within the boxes, the central sleevespassing through the middles of the united diametrical spokes.

Knees j are secured with their inner socketed ends to the ends of thespokes, and the outer ends of the knees are provided with sharptransverse knife-blades h, which serve as markers.

Two uprights, Q, are secured upon the rearwardlyextending arms whichconnect the planter-frame with the wheeled frame, and the lower ends ofthese uprights are formed with transverse hearings, in which a shaft, S,rocks, the said shaft having arms m m projecting from it throughapertures in the bases of the uprights and having a treadle, 11, nearits middle, by means of which the shaft may be rocked.

shouldered catches or latches In are pivoted with their lower ends inthe lower ends of the uprights and have forwardly and upwardly curvedarms 0 at the said ends, which arms are connected to the arms of therocking treadlcshaft by means of small chains or links. The upperforwardly-bent ends of the latches slide in suitable slots in the upperends of the uprights, and are provided at the forward ends withcross-heads p, which prevent the latches from dropping rearward morethan sufficient to support the operating-shaft, which may push thelatches forward when raised, and afterward rest upon the shoulders ofthe latches when the latches have fallen back again.

By depressing the treadle upon the rockshaft when the operating-shaft issupported upon the latches, the shaft and its arms will be tiltedforward, tilting the arms of the latches forward through the links orchains, which will allow the operating-shaft to drop again.

It will be seen that when the machine is drawn across a field and theoperating-shaft is down, the knives or markers of the spokes or legswill engage the ground and revolve the operating-shaft, which will causethe radiating arms of the said shaft to alternately tilt the L-shapedarms, which, by drawing upon the connecting-rods, will rock the T-shapedlever, and through it the vertical lever, which will rock the horizontallever, which slides or reeiprocates the drop ping-slide, and,as the armsupon the operating-shaft project at equal angles from the shaft, thedistances between the several hills planted will be the same.

The operating-shaft is twice as long as the width of the planter-frame,and a portion. one-half the width of the planter-frame, projects at eachside of the machine, so that when the machine is turned at the end ofarow the marker of the spoke at that side to which the machine is turnedis placed into the last mark made by one of the markers of the sameside, so that in starting the machine upon the return trip the markersof that side will strike all the marks made upon the former trip,causingthe hills now planted to be in exact lines with the hills planted uponthe former trip, and thus causing the hills to be planted in check-row,or rows intersecting each other at right angles.

The operating shaft is raised during the turning of the maehine,as wellas when the machine is to be transported from one place to another, andthe shaft is supported upon the shoulders of the latches, keeping themarkers out of contact with the ground, and the shaft maybe turned whenit is raised, so as to bring a marker to register and drop into theexact mark made in the last row, enabling the machine to be startedcorrectly.

The operating-shaft being journaled in the rear ends of the arms, whichare pivoted with their forward ends upon the forward transverse shaft orrod and have the two swiveled connections with the rearends of the twoside arms, the said shaft is thus enabled to rock and be raised orlowered at its ends in traveling over rough ground without interferingwith its operation, and the slotted ends of the several lovers willallow a certain amount of play for the said levers, giving play as wellfor the irregular position of the operating-shaft as for the levers inoperating the dropping-slide.

The operating-shaft is preferably provided with four registeringmarking-arms at each end, although a greater number may be employed,and, if desired, the arms operating the L-shaped arms may be of agreater number than the marker legs or spokes,each sleeve having threeor more arms projecting from it, and the arms of one sleeve bisectingthe angles formed between the arms of the other sleeve, and if asufficient number of arms is employed the machine will drill the corn inrows instead of droppingit in checked hills.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United Statesa 1. In acheck-row attachment forcorn-planters, the combination of a transverse shaft secured upon theforward portion of the planterframe, an operating-shaft having radiatingmarking legs or spokes upon its ends and hav- 1ng radiating arms at itsmiddle operating the seed-dropping mechanism, two arms pivoted at theirforward ends to the forward shaft and having swiveled bearings at theirrear ends for the operating -shaft, and an arm at the middle having avertically-slotted casting at its forward end for the forward shaft anda hearing at its rear end for the operating-shaft, as and for thepurpose shown and set forth.

2. In a check-row attachment for corn-planters, the combination of atransverse shaft at the forward portion of the planter-frame, anoperating shaft having radiating markingarms at its ends and havingradiating arms at its middle operating the seed-dropping mechanism, anarm having a vertically-slotted casting at its forward end sliding uponthe forward shaft and having a hearing at its rear end for theoperating-shaft, arms having bearings at the forward ends for thetransverse forward shaft and having horizontally-flattened sockets attheir rear ends, and transverse bearings for the operating-shaft, havingforwardlyextending bolts turning and sliding in the flattened sockets ofthe arms, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

3. In a check-row attachment for corn-planters, the combination of anoperating-shaft having radiating marking legs or spokes at its ends andhaving radiating arms arranged in two alternating sets upon the middleof the shaft, two Lshaped arms pivoted with the upper arms and havingthe radiating arms of the operating-shaft engaging the lower bentportions and formed with segmental slots in the upper ends, a T-shapedlever pivoted to rock in a horizontal plane upon the forward end of rearend, as and for t-hepurpose shown and set forth.

from the lower ends of the latches at their pivotal points, and arock-shaft journaled in the bearings in the bases of the uprights andformed with a treadle at its middle and wlth forwardly-projecting armsextending through the apertures in the bearings and having the1r endsconnected by links or chains to the ends of the arms of the latches, asand for the purpose shown and set forth.

5. Thecasting M for the forward transverse shaft, formed with the twotransverse bearings for the shaft and with a socket at its lower end andwith the pivotal lug or pin t, as and for the purpose shown and setforth.

6. In a check-row attachment for corn-planters, the combination of thearm I), the operating shaft, the casting g,"having the transversebearing for the operating-shaft, and the; forwardly-projecting box openat the ends and at the upper side and having laterally-projecting pinsor lugs upon the sides, and the L-shaped arms G, fulcrumed upon thestuds or lugs, as and for the purpose shown and set forth. i

7. In a check-row attachment for corn-planters, the combination of theoperating-shaft, castings z, having sleeves at their centers formed withgrooves and securedby means of feathers upon the ends of the operating;shaft, arms I, halved in at their middles and formed with perforationsat their middles for the sleeve, fitting upon each other and withinboxes crossing each other in the casting and upon the sleeves with theperforations, and knees socketed upon the outer ends of the arms andhaving small knife-blades upon their outer ends, as and for the purposeshown and setforth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereuntoaffixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PETER IRANKLIN PANABAKER.

Witnesses:

S. BRINGOLF, FRANK FULLER.

